Lapdogs acted like lapdogs

And Camille Pagila is upset:

As an Obama supporter and contributor, I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration’s strategic missteps this year.  ...The media warhorses failed to speak out when they should have -- from week one after the inauguration, when Obama went flat as a rug in letting Congress pass that obscenely bloated stimulus package.  Had more Democrats protested, the administration would have felt less arrogantly emboldened to jam through a cap-and-trade bill whose costs have made it virtually impossible for an alarmed public to accept the gargantuan expenses of national healthcare reform...

What do you expect from people whose only goals are to accumulate and preserve power, and protecting the One?  What do you expect when the party apparat emphasizes public unity and penalizes deviation from The Agenda?  Better not criticize; might give those eeevil righties ammuntion.  Better not examine too closely; might find a fatal flaw.  Better to argue using disparagement and shouting; might lose on facts.  Better not stand up and yell “Wait a minute;” might be shunned at the next cocktail party or (even worse) left off the short list for that next government sinecure.

(And as to the “media warhorses” doing anything but blindly promoting the Current Wisdom, well, we’ll just have to wait until the next Republican administration.)

In this discussion (about conservatives battling in public), “Og” lamented

It’s a bad lesson to us [conservatives] that we can’t come together to get a job done and then do the in-fighting in private.

True, but remember that slipping from “settling our differences in private” to “papering over the flaws in public” to “ignoring the bad news” is an easy process.  The Democrats’ situation constitutes a prime example.

Via:  Daily Pundit

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